International Journal of Behavioral Development

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Behavioral Development is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Can language modulate perceptual narrowing for faces? Other-race face recognition in infants is modulated by language experience117
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark32
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries30
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language28
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study24
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging22
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use18
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children17
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways15
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development15
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens14
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence14
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents13
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox13
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model13
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood13
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting12
Parent emotional regulation: A meta-analytic review of its association with parenting and child adjustment12
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents12
Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention12
Solutions for latent growth modeling following COVID-19-related discontinuities in change and disruptions in longitudinal data collection11
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions11
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency10
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood10
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development9
Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society9
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude9
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts9
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures8
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts8
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study8
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change8
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents8
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents8
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school8
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence8
Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context: The case of adolescent alcohol misuse8
How far does the apple fall from the tree? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between child and parent self-regulation mediated by parenting practices8
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses7
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years7
What does it mean to be susceptible to influence? A brief primer on peer conformity and developmental changes that affect it7
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher6
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting6
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ)6
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia6
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood5
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence5
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security5
Gender differences in inhibitory control as assessed on simple delay tasks in early childhood: A meta-analysis5
Accommodative coping and preparation for age-related changes: Results from a four-wave panel study5
Cultivating child prosocial behavior in dynamic family systems: The distinct role of family conflict and parental monitoring5
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning5
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland: Roles of work, family, and financial resources4
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level4
Facial emotion recognition and social-emotional problems in middle childhood: Assessment of directional effects4
Maintaining physical activity in older adults: The importance of health-specific control strategies4
What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind4
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs4
Do adolescent and young adult sexters and non-sexters have distinct value orientations?4
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence4
Associations among symbolic functioning, joint attention, expressive communication, and executive functioning of children in rural areas4
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement4
How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?3
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement3
Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: A mediation analysis3
Children’s domain-specific self-evaluations and global self-worth: A preregistered cross-cultural meta-analysis3
Positive transactional processes from age 3 to 15: Social competence, maternal parenting, and fathers’ support for mothers3
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis3
Functional connectivity markers of prematurity at birth predict neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months3
Can changing schools help peer-victimized students escape their plight? A mixed-methods study3
Self-concept at different stages of life: How do early and late adolescents and young, middle-aged, and older adults describe themselves?3
Measuring communication openness within adoptive families: The psychometric properties of the multi-informant Adoption Communication Openness Scale3
Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality3
The role of ISSBD in developmental science: Views of Past Presidents3
Depicting emotions for a male or for a female audience: Do children adapt the content of their drawings to the audience gender?3
Subjective perceptions of age-related gains buffer negative associations of perceived age-related losses with health, well-being, and engagement2
War exposure prior to conception: Longitudinal associations between maternal emotional distress and child sleep 10 years later2
Harnessing peer influence: A summary and synthesis of social network and peer-led intervention research2
Rage, revenge, reward, and recreation: Validating short-form measures of adolescents’ aggression across offline and online contexts2
Exploring the role of the “Big Three” features of effective youth development programs in El Salvador: The sample case of programs of Compassion International2
Advanced scaling and modeling of children’s theory of mind competencies: Longitudinal findings in 4- to 6-year-olds2
The interchangeability of liking and friend nominations to measure peer acceptance and friendship2
Prospective associations of maternal stressors with child psychosocial problems through the occurrence of child physical abuse and changes in family dynamics2
Optimistic children engage in more constructive risk-taking behaviors2
Psychological correlates of crush experiences during early adolescence: Features of the crush experience matter2
Too easy, too hard, or just right: Lifespan age differences and gender effects on task difficulty choices2
Civic science education for youth-driven water security: A behavioral development approach to strengthening climate resilience2
Parental warmth moderates the relation between children’s lying and theory-of-mind2
The Japanese empathy questionnaire (EmQue) for preschool children: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender2
The forms and functions of parental control and parental warmth across cultures: Evidence for commonality and specificity2
Socially responsible children: A link between school climate and aggression and victimization2
Examining goal re-engagement as a mediator of longitudinal associations between awareness of age-related change and vitality in midlife and older adulthood2
Editorial coda2
The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children2
Climate change and resilience: Developmental science perspectives1
The adolescent dysregulation profile and its association with educational, occupational, and substance use outcomes in emerging adulthood1
A longitudinal study of parents’ home-safety practices to prevent injuries during infancy1
A framework for interpreting the relationship between risk-taking and self-control in adolescence1
Predicting changes in classroom aggression status norms: The role of teachers’ normative beliefs and students’ perceived support1
“Do I know how you feel?” Parents’ and adolescents’ recognition of each other’s daily moods1
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood and risk of mental health problems in middle childhood1
In the face of adversity: Refugee children’s traumatic stressors, trust, and prosocial behavior1
Children’s prosocial lying: Polite versus altruistic lies in different social contexts1
Longitudinal associations between preschool children’s theory of mind, emotion understanding, and positive peer relationships1
Young children’s representation of people who are elsewhere—Or dead1
Subtypes of childhood social withdrawal and adult relationship and parenting outcomes1
The impact of affective touch on physiological self-regulation among preschool-age children: The influence of emotional context and effortful control1
Configural properties of face portraits change between childhood and adulthood1
On the microfoundations of the link between classroom social norms and behavioral development1
Infant negative affect moderates longitudinal associations between maternal gatekeeping and toddlers’ social–emotional difficulties1
Parental reactions to child negative emotions and child behavioral adjustment: The moderating role of child inhibitory control1
Are (pre)adolescents differentially susceptible to experimentally manipulated peer acceptance and rejection? A vignette-based experiment1
Validation of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory in younger adults1
Children’s and adolescents’ reasoning about distributive fairness and educational inequalities1
Longitudinal associations of self-control with subjective well-being and psychological well-being: The mediating roles of basic psychological need satisfaction and self-authenticity1
Introduction to the special section on loneliness across the life span1
The joint effects of individual-level and classroom-level teacher−child relationships on children’s psychosocial adjustment: A longitudinal study1
Children’s peer rejection trajectories and Internet gaming addiction: A five-wave growth mixture model1
Subjective age and pulmonary function in midlife and old age: Evidence for between-person associations and within-person co-occurrence1
Parent and teacher involvement and adolescent academic engagement: Unique, mediated, and transactional effects1
Climate change and youth development: A view of an emerging field0
Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis0
A content analysis of cognitive, emotional, and social development in popular kids’ YouTube0
Dynamic change meets mechanisms of change: Examining mediators in the latent change score framework0
The current practice of latent growth curve modeling in the social and behavioral sciences: Observations and recommendations0
The relation between defending, (dis)liking, and the classroom bullying norm: A cross-sectional social network approach in late childhood0
Challenging the exclusion of immigrant peers0
Testing cross-lag effects between peer victimization and social anxiety symptoms from third to fifth grade0
Evaluating a longitudinal multilevel mediation model of self-concept clarity, hope, and subjective well-being in adolescents0
Gender similarities and differences in early childhood development in low- and middle-income countries0
Differences in the interplay of face and speech processing in 5-year-olds and adults0
Psychometric properties of the Social Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) in a longitudinal population-based sample0
Development of the forgiveness schema among young children and adolescents: A multinational comparison0
Belongingness to groups, adolescent loneliness trajectories, and their consequences0
The structure of mental well-being and its relationship with generativity in middle adulthood and the beginning of late adulthood0
Context matters: Norm salience toward aggression moderates the association between parental education and childhood aggressive behavior development0
Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults0
Reliability and validity of the self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in primary school children0
Social withdrawal in an ecologically salient real-world context: Children’s shyness, anxiety, and observed distress behaviors in the surgical setting0
Chinese American mothers’ authoritative parenting moderates the associations between maternal psychological control and child relational aggression0
Big news stories and longitudinal data collection: A prominent child sexual abuse case negatively affects parents’ attitudes toward male caregivers0
The longitudinal associations between perfectionism and academic achievement across adolescence0
School structure explains age group differences in friend selection similarity0
Experiences of solitude in adulthood and old age: The role of autonomy0
Longitudinal associations between attachment and forgivingness within romantic relationships0
Knowledge of development during pregnancy and the transition to parenthood: Psychometric properties of the Domains of Development Instrument0
Parents’ cultural beliefs about maladaptive behavior in young children: A comparison across two cultures0
Individual differences in theory of mind and children’s advanced scientific reasoning in elementary school0
Fostering children’s social pretend play competence and social skills through play tutoring: What is the mechanism of change?0
Children consider “who” and “what” when reasoning about rule changes: A comparative study of children from two cultures0
Parents’ ethnotheories of the nature and causes of children’s misbehaviors: A comparison of mothers across two cultures0
Parent language proficiency is a source of variance in CDI scores for bilingual children0
Cognitive competences in preterm infants across the first year of life: Assessments of continuity, stability, coherence, prediction, and moderation by infant age and country of origin0
Study length, change process separability, parameter estimation, and model evaluation in hybrid autoregressive-latent growth structural equation models for longitudinal data0
Trust, forgiveness, and peace: The influence of adolescent social identity in a setting of intergroup conflict0
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants0
Behavioral inhibition as an early life predictor of callous-unemotional traits0
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications0
Does living alone mean being alone? Personal networks of solo-living adults in midlife0
Evidence for similar conceptual progress across diverse cultures in children’s understanding of emotion0
Interactive associations of maternal and paternal parenting and adolescents’ anxiety0
The role of mothers’ child-based self-worth in their parenting practices0
Pandemic-induced economic stress in an otherwise-privileged sample predicts parents’ socialization of child prosociality and parent coping0
Exploring effects of multi-level factors on transitions of risk-taking behaviors among Bahamian middle-to-late adolescents0
Children revise their emotion attributions in light of the broader temporal context0
Longitudinal pathways linking peer victimization to academic efficacy in adolescence: Indirect effects via sleep0
Bicultural identity and adjustment among ethnoracially minoritized and immigrant adolescents0
Adolescent personality development as a longitudinal marker for burnout and happiness in emerging adulthood0
Maternal postpartum depression symptoms and early childhood hyperactive/aggressive behavior are independently associated with later attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms0
The impact of time of entrance to center-based care on children’s general, language, and behavioral development0
Giving back to the future: Generativity, future time perspective, and purpose0
Children’s understanding of mixed emotions across cultures0
Confirmatory composite analysis in human development research0
Emotion regulation through music and mindfulness are associated with positive solitude differently at the second half of life0
Are narrative story stem methods valid in “non-Western” contexts? A systematic review0
What do I want to be? Predictors of communal occupational aspirations in early to middle childhood0
The association between school burnout, school connectedness, and bullying victimization: A longitudinal study0
Timing is everything: Developmental changes in the associations between intergroup contact and bias0
How to measure climate change worry in adolescents? Psychometric properties of the Climate Change Worry Scale0
Understanding stability and change in depressive symptom trajectories across young adulthood through the lens of career development: A mixed-methods study0
Co-development of internalizing symptoms and regulatory emotional self-efficacy in adolescence: Time-varying effects of COVID-19-related stress and social support0
Predicting emotion regulation in typically developing toddlers: Insights into the joint and unique influences of various contextual predictors0
Unveiling the tapestry of mother–child interactions through text mining and sentiment analysis0
Emerging adults’ cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health in 14 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Cross-cultural measurement of social withdrawal motivations across 10 countries using multiple-group factor analysis alignment0
Early-life exposure to political violence and domestic violence0
Is more information always better? Associations among parents’ online information searching, information overload, and self-efficacy0
Adolescents suppress emotional expression more with peers compared to parents and less when they feel close to others0
Character attributes scale: An integrative idiographic and differential approach to measuring character0
Psychometric evaluation of a brief measure to capture general population-level variation in ADHD symptoms from childhood through the transition to adulthood0
Longitudinal trajectories of children’s peer play interactions and their predictors: Effects on children’s externalizing behaviors0
Exploring child positive affect in context: Links to internalizing and externalizing symptoms among preschoolers0
Friend loss exacerbates adjustment difficulties among shy children0
Wealth promotes generosity? The role of individual wealth on children’s allocation decisions0
Effects of pre- and post-displacement difficulties on parenting behaviors of refugee fathers0
Parental psychological control and emotional well-being among emerging adults: The moderating role of parent-oriented self-construals0
The mediating role of loneliness on relations between face-to-face and virtual interactions and psychological well-being across age: A 21-day diary study0
Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems0
Unfriended during adolescence: Correlates of continued contact with former friends in school and online0
The associations between sibling influence and perception of sibling relationship quality among adolescents: The moderating role of birth order0
Supporting youth emotionally when communicating about climate change: A self-determination theory approach0
Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood: Adjustment and adoption outcomes in adopted young adults0
Adolescent leadership: Associations with exclusion of others, effortful control, and popularity0
Validation and generalizability of machine learning prediction models on attrition in longitudinal studies0
Interpretations and revenge goals in response to peer provocations: Comparing adolescents in the United States and Pakistan0
Children’s vagal flexibility is a predictor and moderator of treatment response to early parenting interventions for inhibited youth0
Playing minds: Parental pretend play input and infants’ vocabulary development0
Youth’s own political interest can explain their political interactions with important others0
Infants’ sense of self revisited: Mixed evidence from two studies on 6-month-olds’ preference for delayed visual feedback0
Applying the human component model of parenting to other primates: Developmental patterns of mother-child interactions across primate species0
Center-based childcare during infancy: The relations with functional brain networks and self-regulation in young children0
Early audiovisual language discrimination: Monolingual and bilingual infants’ differences in language switch detection0
Profiles of climate change distress and climate denialism during adolescence: A two-cohort longitudinal study0
The importance of considering and reporting sources of error in peer nomination research: A response to Bukowski et al.0
Testing of the Facial Expression Coding System (FACES) for middle school–aged special education students and development of a training protocol0
Lonely, impulsive, and seeking attention: Predictors of narcissistic adolescents’ antisocial and prosocial behaviors on social media0
The role of parent–child interactions in the association between mental health and prosocial behavior: Evidence from early childhood to late adolescence0
Associations between executive functions at age 3 and children’s learning behaviors at age 60
Social support moderates the link between chronic peer victimization in school and later cortisol secretion0
Cultural contributors to negative emotionality: A multilevel analysis from the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium0
Enhancing comparability in early child development assessment with the D-score0
Family relationships and family predictors of psychological distress in emerging adult college students: A 3-year study0
Are adolescent leaders prosocial and aggressive?0
Setting societal engagement goals during adolescence amplifies the impacts of political interest on political activities during young adulthood0
The impact of ignoring lags on developmental science: A re-analysis of meta-analyses using lag as moderator0
Introduction to the special section on susceptibility to peer influence0
Crying in the strange situation procedure: Comparisons between East-Asian and Western infants0
Early-life temperament: A longitudinal investigation of stability and structure0
Linking fine motor skills with theory of mind in school-age children0
The effects of rewards on trial-and-error learning in school-aged children0
Developmental shifts in irritable behaviors from preschool to school age: Longitudinal network analysis of heterotypic and homotypic continuity0
Solitude and affect during emerging adulthood: When, and for whom, spending time alone is related to positive and negative affect during social interactions0
Development of the ability to assess (fake) news about ecology from adolescence to older adults0
Should I go to my teacher for help? Predictors of seeking the teacher’s assistance when victimized by peers0
The role of perceived social support in mitigating the impact of parenting stress on children’s effortful control0
Perceived parental expectations and their role in academic and psychosocial functioning0
A longitudinal study of school adjustment among children attending Reggio-inspired preschools0
Psychosocial factors associated with adolescent depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers0
Does the classroom context moderate the effects of internalizing problems and peer status on peer victimization? Testing a vulnerability-by-context model0
Longitudinal associations between quality of out-of-school time and adolescent social skills0
Profiles of participant roles in offline bullying and cyberbullying and normative beliefs among Korean adolescents0
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